Discover the best tourist attractions of western Ukraine with Maria Zawaski! Maria is a freelance journalist, born on the West of Ukraine, got married to Canada. "Now, when I live abroad, I recommend to all my foreign friends to visit western part of my home country Ukraine. Why the western one - it is because I used to live there, so I am more familiar with that part of the country and I can tell lots of stories about the culture, lifestyle and traditions of Ukrainian West," Maria says

Mother’s Day in Ukraine

Now Ukraine is celebrating a Mother’s Day like entire world do (every second Sunday of May). The Mother’s Day is a state holiday for Ukrainians since 1999.
This holiday not such a popular in Ukraine yet, like International Woman Day (March, 8), but it becomes more and more known with every year. Actually, if you would forget about Mother’s Day, a lot of sales and special trade campaigns would remind you :) A month or couple months before the any holiday a stores, supermarkets, street advertising, TV, radio, Internet call you to buy a gifts, flowers, postcards etc. I saw interesting poll on Yahoo “What’s the best Mother’s Day gift?” You have to choose one of three variants of answers, a) “A fresh bouquet of flowers”, b) “Diamonds are a mom's best friend” c) “A rest-and-relaxation day”. If I would be an author of this poll, I would add a fourth variant of answer, “A happiness and health of children”. Yes, it is a big pleasure for our moms to get gifts for their holiday. For sure, the diamonds are great presents, anyway, the flowers and candies too. But I think, the best gift for any mother is when she knows that her children are happy, healthy and not hungry.

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You don’t need visa for travel to Ukraine

If you are citizen of USA, Canada, European Union, Switzerland or Liechtenstein, you don’t need a TOURIST visa for travel to Ukraine. Decree about it was signed in 2005. Tourist visa to Ukraine means that you are going to stay in Ukraine not more than 90 days. So for your short term stay in Ukraine (less than 90 days) you just need to have a travel passport and to buy a ticket, that’s it.
P.S. The same rules work for the citizens of Japan, Andorra, Vatican, Iceland, Monaco, Norway and San Marino. People of these countries don’t need a tourist visa to Ukraine, too.